I really enjoyed this. Read it three times (a lot for me, smile). The refrains (A1,A2) are fantastic. The wild world surrounding an inner comfort to be shared. The shared element was mesmerizing. Really pleasant with a touch of dark, fearful, lonely, cold but contrasted to the warm, tipsy, hugging solace of another’s love. Or at least, that is what I got.

Fun to think of a cold night, and thus cold stars — they are suns of course but really just cold light for us.

Suggestion & thoughts:
small thing –> small things
and out there, –> while out there,

I love the way you drew me into this Villanelle, Sarah, with the direct address, the small things pausing at the fox’s cry and the swooping barn owl. I love that it starts with comforting flames in the grate and ends with the moon and cold white star, and a promise of adventure!

This is beautiful. I love this form. I think it may be my favorite. I especially love this: “but here is wine, dark as a sigh, and a warm place to contemplate – let’s seek some comfort, you and I.” The mood is so inviting.